Homer Hans Bryant created the viral dance style Hiplet, a fusion of classical ballet training, hip-hop, and urban dance. Now, through Hiplet and CMDC, he is encouraging dancers to express themselves ...

In a new documentary for W, director Danielle Levitt captures the dancers of the Hiplet Dance Company, a dance movement officially founded by Homer Bryant in 2009 that blends ballet on pointe with hip ...

Like cookies and cream, or chocolate and peanut butter, it just makes delicious sense to combine hip hop with ballet. And, not unlike these addictive, indulgent treats that are better than the sum of ...

Back in the early 1990s, Homer Bryant, who founded the Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center in 1981, attended a rap concert in Canada and noticed how the cadence of the music allowed the kids to easily ...

In 2016, Homer Bryant posted a clip of his dance students wearing ballet shoes and performing to Jason Derulo’s “If It Ain’t Love.” They were practicing a new style he invented called Hiplet ...

Nia Parker has been a dancer since the age of 4. Her grace and skill are a reflection of focus and hard work. She is part of the Hiplet Ballerinas who had a video go viral as they demonstrated a genre ...

Hiplet is the newest contemporary dance style, which combines ballet with hip-hop. And it started in Chicago! Two months after a video of the Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center (CMDC) hiplet dancers ...

Dancer Nia Towe had been keeping a secret for months. Last week, Towe, who was born and raised in Chicago, settled in to watch an episode of reality television with her family and boyfriend. On-screen ...

Hip-hop ballet isn’t something brand new. Anyone who’s watched Save The Last Dance will be well versed in how ballet can be fused with street dance (even if it’s murdered by Julia Styles). But one ...